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Reflections on Congress: Themes and Experiences Over a 6-day Conference

So I am back from Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences and what a wonderful 6 days it was. I have so many thoughts and concepts to process and I am sure that I will be taking the conversations I had with folk with me for many months to come. I wanted to use this blog to reflect on some of the themes and experiences over the 6 days I was there (and sorry I couldn't make it for the last day of one of the conferences I was registered for) and also an opportunity to open space for continuing discussions about other folk's experiences and ideas they encountered. I am going to organize the blog under larger themes below. Mentorship One of the things that acts as a sort of hidden curriculum around conferences can be summarized as "how to do conferences." When in graduate school very rarely do advisors show their advisees how to conference, or talk about the expectations of what happens at a conference. This can get exacerbated at something like Congress where ther...

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